Relates to the completion of training programs for environmental conservation officers as sworn members of the division of law enforcement in the New York state department of environmental conservation.
Establishes a block grant for hospital nursing care; appropriates ten million dollars therefor.
Requires shareholders to approve corporate political expenditures.
Permits corrective remedies, including but not limited to, preclusion, reversal or modification for violations of certain discovery rules in criminal proceedings only when substantial rights of the party are affected and such remedies shall be available only to the extent to correct prejudice caused by the violation.
Grants authority to assessment corporations to write specified kinds of standalone liability insurance.
Provides for the certification of psychologists to prescribe drugs.
Requires parole violators in the counties of Jefferson, Oswego, and Saint Lawrence to be transferred to state correctional facilities after 10 days in a local correctional facility.
Eliminates the photo image fee for veterans who have their license or identification cards amended with a veteran notation.
Enacts provisions relating to collective negotiations by health care providers with certain health care plans in certain counties; applies to health benefit plans that provide benefits for medical or surgical expenses incurred as a result of a health condition, accident or sickness, including an individual, group, blanket or franchise insurance policy or insurance agreement offered by certain enumerated entities.
Excludes from federal adjusted gross income the amount of any service award paid to a volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance worker, thereby exempting such payments from state income tax in like manner as a pension.
